Walter Schultz is retired Auxiliary Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, and has served for seven years as President of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association and Editor of the association’s journal, Études maritainiennes/Maritain Studies.

With clarity and refined arguments, Walter Schultz uses Maritain's principles and interprets them to speak to current social and political situations, beyond modern and postmodern options. For some, Maritain may be completely passé. But Walter Schultz demonstrates the relevance of Maritain's intuitions to tackle individualism and the distortions and pathologies it induces, and thus proposes something akin to a ‘critical maritainian theory.’ In a world polarized and lacking nuances, this book offers pacifying avenues for respect and recognition both of persons and of communities.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 Atomistic Individualism and the Totalitarian State 1 The Metaphysical Foundation: Intuition and Intelligence 2 The Advent of the Self 3 The Triumph of the Self 4 Ideological Entrapment5 The Unmasking of ModernityPart 2 Nurturing Person and Community6 Overcoming Anthropocentric Humanism7 Maritain’s Personalism and Democracy8 Maritain’s Personalism and His Social CritiquePart 3 Remaining Human in the Twenty-First Century9 The New American Ethos: Breeding a Culture of Despair and Nihilism beneath the Veneer of Patriotism 10 The Case for Maritain’s Integral Humanism in the Twenty-First Century: Against Atomistic Individualism, Autocracy, and Christian Nationalism 11 Maritain’s Recipe for a Personalist Body Politic: Universal Rights, Community, and Civil Society12 Overcoming Modernity and PostmodernityNotesBibliographyIndex

Walter Schultz is retired Auxiliary Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, and has served for seven years as President of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association and Editor of the association’s journal, Études maritainiennes/Maritain Studies.

With clarity and refined arguments, Walter Schultz uses Maritain's principles and interprets them to speak to current social and political situations, beyond modern and postmodern options. For some, Maritain may be completely passé. But Walter Schultz demonstrates the relevance of Maritain's intuitions to tackle individualism and the distortions and pathologies it induces, and thus proposes something akin to a ‘critical maritainian theory.’ In a world polarized and lacking nuances, this book offers pacifying avenues for respect and recognition both of persons and of communities.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 Atomistic Individualism and the Totalitarian State 1 The Metaphysical Foundation: Intuition and Intelligence 2 The Advent of the Self 3 The Triumph of the Self 4 Ideological Entrapment5 The Unmasking of ModernityPart 2 Nurturing Person and Community6 Overcoming Anthropocentric Humanism7 Maritain’s Personalism and Democracy8 Maritain’s Personalism and His Social CritiquePart 3 Remaining Human in the Twenty-First Century9 The New American Ethos: Breeding a Culture of Despair and Nihilism beneath the Veneer of Patriotism 10 The Case for Maritain’s Integral Humanism in the Twenty-First Century: Against Atomistic Individualism, Autocracy, and Christian Nationalism 11 Maritain’s Recipe for a Personalist Body Politic: Universal Rights, Community, and Civil Society12 Overcoming Modernity and PostmodernityNotesBibliographyIndex

Walter Schultz is retired Auxiliary Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, and has served for seven years as President of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association and Editor of the association’s journal, Études maritainiennes/Maritain Studies.

With clarity and refined arguments, Walter Schultz uses Maritain's principles and interprets them to speak to current social and political situations, beyond modern and postmodern options. For some, Maritain may be completely passé. But Walter Schultz demonstrates the relevance of Maritain's intuitions to tackle individualism and the distortions and pathologies it induces, and thus proposes something akin to a ‘critical maritainian theory.’ In a world polarized and lacking nuances, this book offers pacifying avenues for respect and recognition both of persons and of communities.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 Atomistic Individualism and the Totalitarian State 1 The Metaphysical Foundation: Intuition and Intelligence 2 The Advent of the Self 3 The Triumph of the Self 4 Ideological Entrapment5 The Unmasking of ModernityPart 2 Nurturing Person and Community6 Overcoming Anthropocentric Humanism7 Maritain’s Personalism and Democracy8 Maritain’s Personalism and His Social CritiquePart 3 Remaining Human in the Twenty-First Century9 The New American Ethos: Breeding a Culture of Despair and Nihilism beneath the Veneer of Patriotism 10 The Case for Maritain’s Integral Humanism in the Twenty-First Century: Against Atomistic Individualism, Autocracy, and Christian Nationalism 11 Maritain’s Recipe for a Personalist Body Politic: Universal Rights, Community, and Civil Society12 Overcoming Modernity and PostmodernityNotesBibliographyIndex